Strange embarrassments on the left about the Melonian discourse
The left has not been able to react univocally to the most significant passages of the keynote speech of the Prime Minister. The Scratches of Damato
I frankly lost count, listening to the programmatic speech from the press stands in the Chamber, of the times in which Giorgia Meloni managed to make all the center-right deputies spring up like a phalanx, compact in applause. Where there are also discontent and so on for the frustrations caused by the list of ministers and a widespread desire for revenge in the distribution of the posts of deputy minister and undersecretary. Which, not by chance, has been postponed until after today's foregone confidence in Montecitorio and tomorrow in the Senate, justified in its speed by the current emergencies and by the European and, more generally, international appointments on the government's agenda.
In this oratory capacity, emotional and so on, acquired over many years of political militancy on the right, from the party sections to the squares, Meloni has already taken a great satisfaction knowing the tensions within his camp for the usual, old reasons and matters of power.
In this regard, I was impressed by the impetuousness with which Matteo Salvini arrived at the government benches at the last moment and, taking his place to the right of the chair of the Prime Minister who is not yet present, he almost invaded the desk with his folders and other material. Not later than yesterday in his office as Minister of Infrastructure, the Northern League leader had wanted to summon the commander of the Coast Guard as if to warn the prime minister from a distance not to dare to really take away the competences on ports to give them to the minister "of the sea", and not only from the South, Nello Musumeci: a "brother of Italy" dethroned by the governor of Sicily due to the opposition to his confirmation on the island by the parties of Silvio Berlusconi and Salvini himself. From the ports – as we know – the Minister of Infrastructure, and Vice President of the Council, intends to directly monitor the "borders" threatened by illegal immigration.
The ability of Meloni to take, mobilize, control and more of the parliamentarians of her party must have impressed the left-wing opposition. Where, few or many, think that the new prime minister can last much less than the five years publicly proposed because of the divisions, jealousies, frustrations and the like of the center-right coalition parties.
The left itself, on the other hand, has not been able to react univocally to the most significant passages of the keynote speech of the Prime Minister. Silences and indifference alternated from those glacial parts, sporadic applause and more or less immediate adhesions, standing up with the majority. This happened, in particular, when she stood up to applaud, when Meloni recalled the magistrates killed by the mafia, starting of course with Paolo Borsellino, of notoriously right-wing sympathies, or thanked the health personnel mobilized in the fight against Covid , or greeted Pope Francis. Of which, however, he wanted to surprisingly recall a recent intervention against the claim to fight poverty only with the assistance, for example, of the politically marked 5-star citizen income.
It is curious, to say the least, that among the passages of Meloni's speech to which the left has generally or mainly remained indifferent in the Montecitorio courtroom was the patriotic one – Meloni herself would say – of praise and thanks to the Italians who died in the international missions of peace in various parts of the world. Who knows why the fallen of Nassiria, to name the most famous, for whom the Italian squares were filled with tears and flags at the time, did not warm the hearts of the left too much
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/discorso-meloni-reazioni-sinistra/ on Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:35:17 +0000.